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Ocean? how long it has taken for the debris to be seen and floating off the coast? >> well, if it is confirmed that it is airasia, it would coincide with all the circumstances that have occurred since the aircraft disappeared. we've had radar plots of the aircraft through the point that it disappeared. we were also in communication with the aircraft up to approximately three minutes prior to its disappearance. we knew its approximate altitude. we knew its approximate speed. and with all of that information, and understanding its fuel load, the fuel it had on board, were able to more or less ca...

Being used and look at the procedures and protocols that are followed by the pilots which are the history of this airline is fantastic. >> what's your instinct on this flight on the disappearance of this flight? >> i think there's going to be some question with regard to the airasia captain's decision making. if you examine the radar plots relative to all of the other aircraft that were in the sky in that direct vicinity you'll find that the majority dozens of aircraft are actually paralleling the storm but further to the south-southwest. they are actually over land and completely sir lyly nav...

International correspondent, nic robertson. he's in kuala lumpur. nic, what's going on with this? >> reporter: well, john, for the investigators, this is important, that they can draw some more conclusions about who was in control of the aircraft, what they were doing and what their intent was. what the malaysian officials are telling us is that with help of neighboring countries, they've been able to look at the different radar plots and talk to these different countries about what their radar systems have seen. what they're able to say now is that the plane flew, came back across the malaysi...

Islands? >> well, the andaman islands might be located along a route to a further destination. there's no way to tell that the andaman islands is the intended new destination. i did read the reuters report. one interesting thing was it said the radar plots of that target were going from way point to way point, which leads me to believe that an airway was reloaded in the flight management computer so that the airplane would track one of the published airways rather than if a destination only had been put in and direct to that destination had been entered, the aircraft would have crossed across ...

Radar plots. even if the transponder is off. if the aircraft is flying above 10,000 feet, there should be a primary radar plot. now, i understand the national transportation safety board from the united states has dispatched radar specialists -- >> yes. >> -- to malaysia to examine those radar plots and make just that determination. >> yes. malaysia said to the u.s., we need you, and we're going to help. anthony roman, thank you so much for your expertise this morning. i appreciate it. chris, to you. >> brooke, thank you. coming up on "new day," more gruesome evidence in the oscar pistorius ...